Climate change is a threat to global food security due to the reduction of crop productivity
around the globe. Food security is a matter of concern for stakeholders and policymakers as …

Highlights•Next generation sequencing technologies have enabled large-scale genome
analyses.•Pan-genome analyses provide a framework for predicting and modeling genomic …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

Potato (Solanum tuberosum) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicon) crops suffer severe losses
to late blight caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans. Solanum …

Recent advances in ultra-high-throughput sequencing technology and metagenomics have
led to a paradigm shift in microbial genomics from few genome comparisons to large-scale …

There is an increasing understanding that variation in gene presence–absence plays an
important role in the heritability of agronomic traits; however, there have been relatively few …

Background Plants and their associated microbiota constitute an assemblage of species
known as holobionts. The plant seed microbiome plays an important role in nutrient uptake …

Homoeologous exchanges (HE s) have been shown to generate novel gene combinations
and phenotypes in a range of polyploid species. Gene presence/absence variation (PAV) is …

Horizontal transfer, gene loss, and duplication result in dynamic bacterial genomes shaped
by a complex mixture of different modes of evolution. Closely related strains can differ in the …

As an increasing number of genome sequences become available for a wide range of
species, there is a growing understanding that the genome of a single individual is …